US Patent Issued to DENSO on July 8 for "Image recognition apparatus, driver assistance system and image recognition method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,377, issued on July 8, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Image recognition apparatus, driver assistance system and image recognition method" was invented by Ukyo Tanikawa (Nisshin, Japan) and Yasushi Suehisa (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image recognition apparatus comprises an image information acquirer that acquires image information in a given cycle by capturing an image of a traveling path along which an own vehicle travels, a road sign recognizer that recognizes a road sign based on the image information and a traffic lane recognizer that recognizes traffic lanes located in the traveling path based ...